Comments on: White Teen Visiting Houston with Black Dance Teachers Taken to CPS by Police

By: netster

netster — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:57:00 +0000

I think the police is doing their job well done. Sometime you can not assume things, its better to take action and find out out further. We really don’t want to see another missing 13 years old end up dead or like you said sex trafficking is a serious issue in any country.

By: Shady Grady

Shady Grady — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:49:00 +0000

Certainly if police see a child in a car with two adult men who do not appear to be related they should ask questions. The problem comes with the specifically racial nature of the police’s inquiries and their initial dismissal of the evidence which the men had to prove everything was on the up and up.

By: ginavalley

ginavalley — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 07:59:00 +0000

I have 3 teenage daughters. If one of them was alone in a car with 2 (or even one) much older man of any race (whether brown as my daughters are or lighter or darker makes no difference), I would want the police to error far onto the side of caution.

By: Bryan Ortez

Bryan Ortez — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 13:35:00 +0000

I don’t know… would kidnappers doze off in a car in a public place? It seems they are suggesting they fell asleep in a convenience store parking lot. I do think it is acceptable to be suspicious of child abductions, but it seems the police were not going to let them out of there regardless of what happened.

I found a story on Huffington Post which seems to suggest the teachers had their permission note on them, but the police disregarded it. I think that is important that if they had a note on them, then the police chose to ignore it and arrest the two. I would also wonder if the girl was telling the police that she wasn’t being abducted that they were her teachers and if they chose to ignore her too, as they did with the young girl walking down the sidewalk with her grandfather.

I also saw your suggestion about profiling white people. I think though there are non race-based qualifiers for suspicious white people, nazi skinheads, confederate flag wavers (which are everywhere and routinely ignored), or circling a school in a big van.

What qualifiers were necessary for profiling Trayvon or people like Trayvon? I strongly feel the most important qualifier is his skin color and any other behaviors are secondary.